Versions Conflicts

[David A]

I have an older PC Pentium 2 266 running Windows 98SE. I
currently have Office 97 on there and need to upgrade to
Office 2000 or XP. Can I run Office 2000 or Office XP on a
Windows 98Se machine of does the OS need to be 2000 or
better??

 

[Mardus]

Hi.

You would be able to have either Office 2000 or xp on your system; I am
not so sure about 2003. You could choose to have 2000, because it will
run faster on your machine than xp.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/evaluation/fastfacts.asp

You must upgrade your computer's RAM memory to 128megabytes. The link
given will help you to see information regarding office xp, like system
requirements and so on.

A previous post was not sure if Office 2000 was officially available in
computer stores...

As an alternative, I could run OpenOffice on a similar system to yours,
which has 64M RAM, but the computer barely met the minimum requirements.
You can download OpenOffice from http://www.openoffice.org . As with any
new software, it will require some learning curve.

 

[Brian Bygland]

Hi.

You would be able to have either Office 2000 or xp on your system; I am
not so sure about 2003. You could choose to have 2000, because it will
run faster on your machine than xp.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/evaluation/fastfacts.asp

If my memory is correct, Office 2003 must have at least Windows 2000 SP3 or
Windows XP.